ILEAS Executive Director Status Report May 24, 2007

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ILEAS Executive Director Status Report May 24, 2007 Membership May 2006 May 2007 % Increase Members 803 852 6% Alarm Cards Completed 640 705 10% 2006 ILEAS Local Law Enforcement Agency Grants The

1 ILEAS Executive Director Status Report May 24, 2007 Membership May 2006 May 2007 % Increase Members % Alarm Cards Completed % 2006 ILEAS Local Law Enforcement Agency Grants The 2006 Grant Review Committee met on March 1 st and reviewed equipment grant applications. ILEAS received 92 grant applications for 439 MDC s totaling $3,037,880. Additionally, ILEAS received 25 grant applications for thermal imagers. The Committee awarded 55 agencies a total of 189 MDC s. With the assistance of MABAS, the Committee prioritized the 25 thermal grant applications. Because the Fire Marshall s Office and CMS have yet to finalize the thermal bid, the committee did not know how many units were available for distribution. All of the grant agreement paperwork has been completed and 50 of those 189 MDC s have already been distributed to the recipients. It should be noted that ILEAS recruited the assistance of the Champaign-Urbana Police Departments in the CMS testing of thermal imagers at IFSI. Contract Staff Attached you will find an Organizational Chart for ILEAS. There are now 28 contract staff. Insurance As reported in January, ILEAS has now expanded its insurance coverage. The original insurance was Officers and Director s liability only. We now have a Business Owner s Policy (BOP) and worker s compensation policies. The BOP will cover the office equipment in case of flood, fire, etc. as well as onpremises liability. However, we have not been able to secure two other important insurance coverages general off-premise liability and general insurance for equipment. Many locations where we hold training ask for proof of insurance which we have been unable to provide. We have, however, met with the Volunteer Fire Insurance Service out of Downer s Grove. They have found an underwriter that is interested in providing insurance. We have met with them and are awaiting a quote. More will follow on this subject as it develops. Dues The 2007 annual dues invoices have been sent out and so far we have collected $19,775 from 380 agencies (47%). It should be noted that 93% of the agencies have paid dues for There are 54 agencies that still owe $2,145 in dues for They were notified in writing that since they have not paid their 2006 dues and pursuant to the Governing board s policy, they are not eligible for grants, equipment, etc. ILEAS Conference A large portion of staff resources in February and March were dedicated to the ILEAS Annual Conference that took place in Springfield on March 18-20, The Conference feedback was very positive. There were over 575 registered and 538 attendees. 498 of them have paid their conference registration fees totaling $70, attendees have yet to pay $5,575. Invoices for those fees are being sent this week. The dates for the Conference next year are March 2-4, Budget For specifics, see the treasurer s report on the ILEAS business account. However, we can estimate that once all the conference and dues fees are collected, ILEAS will have approximately $168,000 in the business account. 1/10/2014 1

2 Gas Masks The ILEAS staff has been in discussions with the Peoria Police Department regarding the return of 247 unused AVON masks. Peoria had purchased 3M masks just prior to the ILEAS AVON distribution and did not want the AVON s but took them because they were free. Peoria will return the masks and we will redistribute them to agencies that have requested new masks. At this point we have a backlog of requests for 362 masks. All 138,000 N95 masks have been delivered and are being stored in Urbana. So far to date, 11 law enforcement agencies have signed up for the 3M online medicals and registered 347 officers/deputies to take the online exams. This is way below the estimates. ILEAS requests that the Board encourage law enforcement agencies to sign up for this service. Inventory ILEAS has hired 6 Field Inventory Inspectors. They were trained on April 30, 2007 and started work on May 1 st. At this point 448 agencies have self-certified their inventories. There are 485 agencies that have yet to certify. The Field Inspectors are calling agencies every day reminding them. It should be noted that they are working with an online system set up by Indilus Technologies so that we can monitor their activities every day. The Field Inspectors are also calling non-members to remind them that they need to certify if they got equipment from us. While they are talking to these agencies, they are using that opportunity to recruit them as members. We have added 12 agencies as members through this process. All the WMD SRT teams have had their equipment personally inventoried by Jennifer Ford. Staff will have a complete inventory of all reportable ILEAS property done in the first half of July. Mobile Field Force Teams Region Commander Agency Region 2 North- Winnebago County Winnebago Area Sheriff Region 3 North- Kane/McHenry Region 3 South- Kankakee Area Region 3-Central Metro Southwest Region 4 NIPAS Region 6 West Central Illinois Region 8 METRO East Elgin Police Dept. Kankakee Police Dept. Plainfield Police Dept Rosemont Police Dept. Quincy Police Dept. St. Clair County Sheriff Personnel Equipment Basic Training Complete (70) Complete (70) Team Command Selected (65) Team Command Selected (70) Complete (130) Complete (50) Complete (70) Ordered. Ordered Team Equipment Delivered. Ordered Truck Ordered. Team Ordered Some Individual Equipment Delivered Held April nd Basic Scheduled June Training Held May 14 th -16 th. Organizational Status 1/10/2014 2

3 A Mobile Field Force has been formed in the Kankakee area. The team-based equipment has been delivered. A meeting was held in Plainfield with interested agencies in the Metro Southwest area. Formal commitment has been received from 20 agencies to participate in a team. The commander has been selected and the process has begun to select team supervisors and members. Training The first ILEAS Mobile Field Force Basic was held in Rosemont April for one half (64 members) of the NIPAS team. Because they have a double team a second basic is necessary and will be held June A MCATI Protestor Device course is scheduled for June 5-7 in Rantoul. A scheduled MCATI Command course was cancelled due to not meeting the minimum number of students. Region 8 held its Basic Mobile Field Force training May (54 participants). 16 Mobile Field Force members attended the MCATI Command training at Anniston AL. Protestor Device training is scheduled June 5-7 in Rantoul for three members from each team. Equipment A small amount of chemical munitions has been supplied for the first 5 teams. This was made possible by using state funding as DHS will not allow the purchase of chemical and less lethal munitions with their grants. WMD Special Response Teams Equipment Nine Bearcats have been delivered. Region 9/11 s HazMat gear has been delivered so all teams have received their basic equipment. Most of the purchases are now involving replacement and/or new team members. The board will be asked to approve $370,500 for team decon. Tool kits and supplies for the Patriot breathing apparatus have been distributed. Calibration kits for the gas meters have been delivered. Training Basic SWAT class of 37 held April 18-27, 2007 in Rantoul, Urbana and Champaign. IFSI continues to work on an 8-hour SCBA course for the teams as well as a more SRT-oriented HazMat course. LSU Tactical Operators Course held for NIPAS and Region 3 was in March. ILEAS facilitated 13 SRT members from other regional teams to attend this training. Patriot Maintenance and Use training is scheduled for June in Rantoul. Motorola Key Loader training is scheduled for two sessions - May 17 th at the Motorola Campus for the northern area teams and June 21 st in Urbana for the central and southern area. 14 members attended HazMat for Emergency Responders in Anniston, AL. in the last few months 14 members attended LEPM, LERA, and HOT in Anniston AL. (Law Enforcement Protective Measures, Law Enforcement Response Actions, and Hands on Training). Certification All teams except 9/11 have been certified as operational. Region 9/11 just recently received the HazMat equipment they have been lacking. Communications Dave Owens met with the SRT Team leaders along with a representative from IEMA Communications and Motorola. As it turns out, the teams radios were not all programmed the same. Their needs were discussed including getting all of the radios programmed with the same template. I ve met with the Motorola network administrator who is in the process of providing a more user-friendly template. That project is on-going but we believe that in short order all the SRT radios will be properly programmed. 1/10/2014 3

4 Facility The new ILEAS storage facility is completed. It is a 20 x 60 bay attached to the Champaign County EMA garage which is approximately ½ mile from the ILEAS office. Pallet racks have been installed and a hydraulic stacker purchased. Regional Workshops 1) ILEAS Update and N95 Train-the-Trainer workshops As of May 17 th ILEAS has put on these two programs in Mattoon, Springfield, Carterville, and Algonquin. Our numbers for the ILEAS Updates are lower than we had hoped for, but the response has been good. The N95 respirator fit test workshops have been well attended, with a large number of attendees coming from local health departments. We have arranged for a Bearcat and a mobile command post to be on display at each of the training sessions and at least one ILEAS staff member has been present to assist the instructor, provide handouts and to work with each agency represented in getting their online data and alarm cards completed. 2) Business Executive for National Security (BENS) Michele has been researching this and has been in contact with David Guthrie, Director of MidAmerica Business Force in Kansas City, MO (a program of BENS). This is a new project to develop public-private partnerships, mobilizing and organizing the resources and expertise of the corporate community to improve regional disaster response capabilities. Their goals seem to be in line with what we may want to develop in Illinois. Mr. Guthrie said that they are only in the development stage with this but he is helpful and willing to answer questions. 3) Campus Safety Initiative Michele Watson and Dave Owens attended a meeting in Springfield on how Governor Blagojevich will address campus safety issues in Illinois following the Virginia Tech incident. Col. Jill Morganthaler wants ILEAS to be involved in dispersing $330,000 in grant money to University Police departments as well as being a part of a Campus Security Task Force. On May 16, 2007, ILEAS issued a purchase order for 303 StarCom21 radios for university police agencies. Motorola donated 148 and ILEAS purchased 132. IEMA will work with the Campus Law Enforcement Administrators Association group to conduct the training and distribute the radios. Communications Statewide Interoperability Executive Committee (SEIC) ILEAS has been asked to participate in the new SEIC that has been formed. ILEAS, MABAS, ISP, Fire Chiefs Association, IEMA and others make up the Committee. This Committee was formed based on state law governing specifically the 700 MHz radio spectrum and its use for public safety. It will define its role in regards to the mandate and to identify and include the appropriate agencies to participate in the process. The creation of an SEIC is required in order for a State to receive any funds from the $960 million Federal Interoperability Fund that will be distributed later this year. Dave Owens is the ILEAS representative on that committee. ILEAS has also hired, at ITTF s request, Becky Ford. Her responsibility is to work for ITTF and the SEIC to write the interoperability plan that will be the foundation for Illinois application for those funds. ITTF Communications Committee Dave has also been participating as ILEAS s representative on the ITTF Communications Committee. They are still in the process of development of a state-wide interoperability plan. They are also currently involved in putting together a plan that will put Illinois in the running for additional Homeland Security Funding specifically for 700 MHz radio systems. Since Dave and others sit on both of these committees, they are ensuring that there is commonality between the work being produced. Other Communications Issues Dave Owens has been receiving and dealing with Starcom21-related problems and questions from various public safety agencies throughout the state of Illinois. He continues to act as a resource for any communications-related questions to the radio that we have put out to local and county law enforcement agencies. It should be noted that Dave has been very valuable in this regard and any StarCom21 or communications questions can be directed to him. 1/10/2014 4

5 Mobile Command Post Vehicles Dave Owens has been contacting and working with the caretakers of the Unified Command Post Vehicles. He is updating contact information and determining what they needed from a communication standpoint. He identified 5 of the vehicles that had not had their VHF, UHF, and StarCom21 radios programmed with the appropriate radio frequencies and talk groups. He has been working with Motorola to get these radios properly programmed. At this point there only two that do not have radios programmed completely. He also sent out a survey to determine their status and any other needs that they having including training needs. Radiation Detectors ILEAS will be receiving several radiation detector units to send out for field trials. Agencies with radiation - trained WMD SRT members will be asked to do field trials this summer. The results of those field trials and the laboratory bench testing will be announced next fall. It is the Committee s intent to make purchases prior to December 31, Champaign County Nursing Home/ILEAS Training Center See the attached report for details on this project. At the Dept. of Homeland Security Grants and Training conference in November in Washington, DC, representatives from the National Center for Biomedical Research and Training (based at Louisiana State University) approached ILEAS and opened discussions about a partnership to provide training in the Midwest. They are interested in an arrangement where ILEAS would provide a facility and they would manage all the training. As it turns out, Champaign County built a new county nursing home and moved over 200 residents from the old nursing home to the new one. The old nursing home is still in good shape and available. It is 112,000 square feet and sits on a 23 acre site. ILEAS has met with the Champaign County Board Facilities Committee and they voted unanimously to work with ILEAS to make it happen. For further details, please see the attached proposal. Also check out photos and floor plans at Law Enforcement Resource Typing Workgroup Jim Page and Mark Beckwith attended the NIMS Law Enforcement Working Group meeting in Washington, DC February 12-15, Jim Page attended the next meeting in Denver May 8-11, In addition, ILEAS was invited by the NIMS group to participate given our experience with the WMD SRT development and mutual aid. This group has been assigned the task of writing the NIMS Resource Types for all law enforcement positions and teams. ILEAS was specifically asked to submit a proposal to FEMA on how to develop an ILEAS for the Nation. The Major City Chiefs Association had proposed this concept and ILEAS was asked to submit a concept paper. A copy of this proposal is attached. It was accepted by the Working Group and sent to FEMA for review. It should be noted that Senate Bill S4 is presently in conference committee in Congress. S4 has a provision that requires the FEMA Administrator to develop a pilot project for a National Law Enforcement Rapid Response Team. At this time, the ILEAS proposal is the foremost work on this potential project. Requested Board Action: Submitted By: James Page Executive Director 1/10/2014 5

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